- Summary:
- Director: Alan Brown
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Music
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 7
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Mixed: 5 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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Oct 11, 201363It's a lovely way to open a film that is at its best when it is displaying dancers in motion and exploring the complex dynamics of a rehearsal space.
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63It's the moments when director Alan Brown stops worrying about clarifying plot and character motivation and lets the performances bring those into being that makes this an authentic project.
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Oct 1, 201360[An] occasionally awkward but finally light-footed movie.
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50The gorgeous physicality is more impressive than the sketchy storyline of this dance-centric drama.
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Oct 1, 201340If only verisimilitude equaled quality. But unfortunately, schmaltzy music and drab melodrama drag down the otherwise graceful moves of Five Dances.
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40Though the film’s untested cast struggles with the drama, and the sketched-out story is often banal (there are several amateurish calls-to-mom scenes), the presentation of a specific city subculture is etched from the heart.
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40A promising, though static, new film that never leaves its taciturn shadows for a single emotionally gripping moment.
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